Easter egg

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An easter egg is a message that is hidden or otherwise not immediately evident and is meant to amuse players and often used by the designers to refer to influences, development jokes, pet characters, previous works, or preferences.

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Doom

Quit Messages

Attempting to leave the game will give you a random message to go with "Press Y to Quit to dos" (Ex. Just leave. When you come back, I'll be waiting with a bat.- You're trying to say you like DOS better than me, right?)

Swastika

In released versions of Doom prior to V1.4, E1M4: Command Control contained a swastika design on the floor of one room. According to John Romero, it was placed there as a homage to Wolfenstein 3D. Alpha versions of this level, dated April 2 and May 22, 1993, included the same room, but did not have the swastika design. [1] The swastika was removed in V1.4 of Doom. The presence of a swastika would have caused Doom to be banned in Germany, and not just restricted to adults due to the game's graphic violence.

NIN Reference

E4M1: Hell Beneath includes the letters "NIИ" in a part of the level, a reference to Nine Inch Nails, the American industrial rock band. [1] Also, id software's next game, Quake, would feature sound and music by the band's frontman, Trent Reznor. Additionally, ammunition for the nail-gun and super nail-gun –a crate of nails– would be inscribed with "NIИ" on each of its faces.

Doom II

John Romero's head on a stick

Romero's head

In MAP30: Icon of Sin, after the player teleports into the huge room with the head of the final boss, a strange, unintelligible noise is played. This is stored in the Doom2 wad file as DSBOSSIT, and if reversed it becomes a voice saying "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero". The voice is shifted down in pitch and is that of John Romero himself.

In the same level, John Romero's severed head on a stick features as the main boss creature, although the head is hidden behind the face of the final boss, and can only be approached with the noclip cheat. The player must indeed kill it in order to win the game.

A Cyberdemon is in the place of Hans Grosse in MAP32; the name of this map also comes from Hans Grosse's name.

In the last room in MAP32 there are four Commander Keens hanging on ropes. They must be killed in order to exit the level.

At the beginning of MAP32, the message "You'd better blaze through this one!" is displayed; Billy Blaze is Commander Keen's real name.

No Rest for the Living

In the first level of the Doom II expansion: No Rest for the Living may be found a hidden message is written on the walls and ceiling of a room, which must be reached before they meet the 30 seconds after starting the game and push a switch.

The message reads "The castle was here," the word castle being a direct allusion to Russell "The Castle" Meakim, one of the game designers, employed by Nerve Software.

Final Doom

There is a hidden room in MAP17: Processing Area next to the room containing the blue key that can only be accessed by using the noclip cheat. Several Demons are inside and will teleport out once the key is collected. In this room the player can see "Tom" and "NIИ" in large, glowing blue letters on the north and south walls respectively.

Doom 64

In Doom 64, if a player dies and waits several seconds, messages will start to appear at the top of the screen every once in a while, usually taunting the player (e.g. "HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!", "LOOK AT THOSE DEMON FEET!", etc.).

In level MAP03: Main Engineering is a time when, on entering the second room, generating a huge pedestal where the blue key is triggered. However, if the player jumps inside the circle where it will create the pedestal after the key appears, you will be trapped in the machine unable to leave but does not die. The legend appears on the sides of the pedestal base "I suck at making maps" repeated on all four sides.

Microsoft Excel 95

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

In Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, typing IDDQD or IDKFA shows a picture of the Pitfall staff.

Wrack

Wrack's loading screen features protips, which provide useful tips on playing the game. Some of them have references to Doom.

"To win the game you must kill me, John Ro- Oh, nevermind." - This refers to the reversed Icon of Sin chant from Doom 2.

"To kill enemies, shoot at them until they die." - Refers to the sarcastic Doom playing tip from a Gamepro magazine, "To kill the Cyberdemon, shoot at it until it dies!", which spawned the protip internet meme.

In addition to the protips, Wrack also features discouraging joke messages that show when the player tries to leave the game, much like those seen in Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Doom 2.